The Time Machine

3.5 stars — Wells' writing style is surprisingly easy to read. A great introduction to the world of time travel, but failed to interest me enough. I loved how our main character, the Time Traveller is nameless throughout the story. Just the Time Traveller. It's an interesting element of mystery and intrigue. But once we got to the future, I found it to drag, be a bit boring. Nevertheless, it interesting to see how Victorian Wells envisioned the future. Instead of advanced technology or steampunk, we got two caveman creatures: the Eloi and the Morlocks, and the Time Travellers experience with these new species. It's not often we get these sorts of future in mainstream time travel stories (we all think of advanced technology now, not cavemen), and that itself felt unique to read.